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• Follow Up\\n
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  • Battlebots Bingo\\n
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    • It’s over, but its also not over\\n
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      • Potential future ticks\\n
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        • Khajit has wares: does Monsoon using a piece of Bombshell count?
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        • Elephantastic: Nelly still has a fight to be released
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    • Thrilling statistical analysis\\n
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      • 9 of Roasting Robots’ 16 predictions scored points\\n
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        • 4 of these went to Robocast, 3 to Spinnerproof, and 2 back to RR
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      • 8 of Robocast’s 16 predictions scored points\\n
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        • 5 of these went to RR, 2 to Spinnerproof, and 1 back to Robocast
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      • 5 of Spinnerproof’s 16 predictions scored points\\n
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        • 3 of these went back to Spinnerproof, while RR and Robocast each received 1
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• Front Matter\\n
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  • FRA Beetleweight Champs\\n
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    • Event recap/report thing\\n
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      • This video’s thumbnail is possibly one of my favourite things I’ve ever made and that genuinely scares me - Ryan
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    • Playlist of our fights
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    • Full event video
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• Battlebots\\n
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  • The robots we missed\\n
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    • Bloodsport\\n
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      • Unfortunate to come up against 2 verts in its play-in
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    • Skorpios\\n
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      • Suffering from its similarity to Sawblaze: a robot which Battlebots has definitely fallen in love with
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      • Matched up against a lot of tanky machines
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      • Most of the original team from 2016 are still on the team, but the team has doubled in size since 2016\\n
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        • The captaincy has changed, but the previous captain (Orion Beach) is still on the team
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    • Sidewinder\\n
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      • The weird idea which kinda worked, right up until it didn’t
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    • Tantrum\\n
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      • Not-Tantrum working extremely well in China
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      • The additional brutality of a spinner you have to fire
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• Battleboats\\n
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  • Battlebots, but on water
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  • The meme which didn’t actually spark this conversation
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  • Model warship combat\\n
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    • Projectile weapons on replica boats
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  • Wetbots at RoboNerd\\n
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    • Normal robot combat weapons on…whatever you would call that
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  • What weapons can be effective?\\n
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    • Multiple weapons?
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  • Submarines? Hovercrafts? Hydrofoils? Ekranoplans? Crabs?
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  • Weapon restrictions\\n
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    • Mythbusters on how bubbles affect buoyancy
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    • Bubbles sinking a ship
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  • ‘Arena’ hazards
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• Robot naming conventions\\n
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  • Semantic Versioning
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  • Year-based versioning\\n
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    • What if an event takes place over the new year?
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• Aftershow: Roborace\\n
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  • Tom Scott’s video\\n
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    • The project has been going for at least 3 years but good info seems hard to find\\n
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      • 2019 was the first time they brought in external teams to turn this into a competitive sporting environment
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  • How ‘deeply’ can teams alter the car’s software?
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  • No active overtaking in races, overtakes are limited to straights and uncontested
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  • How programmers make software work better\\n
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    • Fast inverse square root
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    • RAM management on PS1
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    • (Not mentioned in the podcast, but still interesting): Game Saving
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  • Writing an operating system
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